Anyone done up Yacht Deckplans?

[jbuckmaster]

As the title suggests, I'm looking for Yacht Deckplans if anyone has done them. And if not, if people are wanting them, I guess I'll share whatever I come up with since I'll need them anyway... (silly players wouldn't take the Free Trader, no... they wanted the Yacht.)

-John

 

[Xoph]

What about the yacht deckplans on page 11 of this pdf?

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/pdf/travdeckplanspt1.pdf

 

[jbuckmaster]

That makes me feel stupid. I checked both pdfs twice before posting...

-John

 

[Xoph]

No worries, It is in a screwed up location.

 

[-Daniel-]

Here is one that I happen to like how it is going:

http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=15915&page=5

Daniel

 

[jbuckmaster]

unfortunately, that means signing up to yet another forum...

-John

 

[GypsyComet]

unfortunately, that means signing up to yet another forum...

-John

The Traveller community is not centered in any one spot, but CotI is certainly one of the best.

 

[EDG]

The Traveller community is not centered in any one spot, but CotI is certainly one of the best.

I'd say it's one of the worst, myself - IMO there's too much noise and too little signal there (much like the TML). The MGT board here is shaping up pretty well though (and I think this is ultimately where the Traveller Community is going to end up being centred, whether anyone likes it or not), and the Avenger board is nice if a little quiet. There's also the SFRPG boards at http://www.sfrpg.org.uk/phpBB3/index.php .

 

[Imperator58]

What I'M waiting for are deckplans for the safari ship, one of my favorites. Nothin' like travelling in style.
I'm a proud owner of FASA's Adventure Class Ships, both I and II, but the Safari actually wasn't in either. Should hopefully be showing up in one of these upcoming new books, though.

 

[GypsyComet]

The Safari Ship is in CT Adventure 10, called "Safari Ship" of all things. A new take on it wouldn't be amiss, but the old Leaping Snowcat is one of the best deckplans GDW did.

 

[EDG]

The Safari Ship is in CT Adventure 10, called "Safari Ship" of all things. A new take on it wouldn't be amiss, but the old Leaping Snowcat is one of the best deckplans GDW did.

I never really got the Safari ship... was it really for hunting animals? Why would anyone need a starship for that? Wouldn't hunters go to a planet on another kind of ship and then use a much smaller vehicle to get to the hunting ground? And then load up their cargo in another starship?

That said, I always did like the look of the thing...

 

[Vile]

I never really got the Safari ship... was it really for hunting animals? Why would anyone need a starship for that? Wouldn't hunters go to a planet on another kind of ship and then use a much smaller vehicle to get to the hunting ground? And then load up their cargo in another starship?

The ship itself was more of a jump-capable hunting lodge (complete with verandah) with holding tanks. There was a launch for long hunting trips, and the most sensible grav vehicle in all of CT, a small enclosed "air van".

That said, I always did like the look of the thing...

Well, it was based on a classic ... 8)

 

[EDG]

The ship itself was more of a jump-capable hunting lodge (complete with verandah) with holding tanks. There was a launch for long hunting trips, and the most sensible grav vehicle in all of CT, a small enclosed "air van".

Oh, I got that. I just didn't understand why people would actually build a starship to do that. What do the "great white hunters" of the Imperium do? Do they get together with their chums and say "right chaps, we're off to the planet Timbuktu III to hunt ourselves a Greater Spotted Pumbluther. We'll have a jolly good time spending three weeks in jump and at port to get there and then spend a few days hunting the blighter down before we load up the carcass and bring it back and give it to Sir John Foxworthy-Smythe to stuff and mount it"?

It's not really much of an expedition - you spend so much more time in transit (and in relative comfort at that) and comparatively little time doing the hunting (especially given that you can probably just track your beastie from orbit and swoop down and get it)... I guess it is a plaything for the rich who have nothing better to do though.


However, the holding tanks etc might make it a rather nice vessel for a bounty hunter roaming around looking for skipped criminals... how self-sufficient would it be, I wonder?

 

[-Daniel-]

I never really got the Safari ship... was it really for hunting animals? Why would anyone need a starship for that? Wouldn't hunters go to a planet on another kind of ship and then use a much smaller vehicle to get to the hunting ground? And then load up their cargo in another starship?

The ship itself was more of a jump-capable hunting lodge

Interesting. I just always looked at it like it was a Yacht that had been built for a particular person's needs and others liked it enough to buy it.

My dad used to like to read this one magazine about the top end of the Yacht market and some of those boats are designed with a particular use in mind because the guy buying it wanted it to be. I remember one had a full dark room and another had a full casino game room.

I never thought of the Safari as anything more then a custom yacht.

Daniel

 

[AKAramis]

The safari is a passable bounty hunting ship, yes. not great, tho.

As far as hunting trips go, well, there's always stuff like the Wypoc Dragon (fanon, not canon), or the big beasties from Adv9: Nomads of the World Ocean, or the Chamax...

 

[captainjack23]

The safari is a passable bounty hunting ship, yes. not great, tho.

As far as hunting trips go, well, there's always stuff like the Wypoc Dragon (fanon, not canon), or the big beasties from Adv9: Nomads of the World Ocean, or the Chamax...

Possibly because I lived in a coastal community when I first got traveller, I always saw the Safari ship more in terms of a big charter fishing yachts (like in the glory days of sail and sword fishing ) than a landbound big game hunting vehicle. Which is to say, a place where you live and hunt and stor your prizes/catch/trophies, as opposed to a combination of brush plane/landrover/ and heavy truck.

Makes tons of sense in that context -plus, some supplement, I can't recall which, identified the Safari yacht as usually being a corporate purchase for client junkets, which often ended up on the used market.....both ofwhich were the case with quite a few of the fishing yachts, also , IIRC.

 

[Imperator58]

The Safari Ship is in CT Adventure 10, called "Safari Ship" of all things. A new take on it wouldn't be amiss, but the old Leaping Snowcat is one of the best deckplans GDW did.

Hey, GypsyComet!
Yah, I have the booklet and have done up the deckplans myself in both 15mm & 25mm (the former looks a LOT better). But, I'd like a professionally done one.
Which makes me wonder, and kinda salivate: Old Traveller players are used to ships in the FASA/Seeker standard. How sweet would they be in modern, professional minis-map standard like (sorry, sponsors) WotC and it's fans are doing? OMG!! How I'd LOVE to see a Sulieman done to modern graphic standards. It'd so rock.
So that's what I want from you, Mongoose. Get on it. :mrgreen:

 

[GypsyComet]

There are two possible markets for deckplans: the guys who hang them on the wall, and the guys who put them on the game table.

The "framed for display" crowd like all the shiny they can get. Highly detailed, full color, bells & whistles.

The "play map" crowd are likely more interested in "where are the DOORS?!?"

Too much graphic density makes a "map" harder to use. Note that WotC and WizKids both indulge in color-coding the map grid to indicate how the terrain depicted is represented by the rules. This is partly because they are for no-referee miniatures games, and partly because that kind of labeling is necessary just to read the bleeping map.

 

[Patron Zero]

If not violating any forum rules, I have the boxed set of the FASA Adventure Class Ships which contains a yacht deck plan. Happy to scan said layout and e-mail such if you might be interested.

 

[qstor]

There's deckplans for the safari and the yacht in the GT Starships too as well.

Mike